BREAKING: 15 people charged with gambling offences following the gamblegate scandal of the general election, including former Conservative MP and aide to Rishi Sunak, Craig Williams. The sleaze scandal was one of the final nails in the Tory govt’s coffin. - ThreadSky

paulbrand.bsky.social • 69 days ago

BREAKING: 15 people charged with gambling offences following the gamblegate scandal of the general election, including former Conservative MP and aide to Rishi Sunak, Craig Williams.

The sleaze scandal was one of the final nails in the Tory govt’s coffin.

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martinfookes.bsky.social•68 days ago

I would never defend corrupt politicians, but I think the betting industry has a nerve. If they open a book on the date of the general election, they must know some folk will know that date in advance of it becoming public. If you accept the bet, don't cry "foul" when you lose.

donaldtrumpstoupee.bsky.social•68 days ago

You're right mate

right-wing-dude.bsky.social•69 days ago

Oh dear! Kemi will claim the story was changed so that white people were only prosecuted when she will claim Islamic Extremists were behind this. On the same day the Two Tier Policing against white people was proved to be BS.

willadams.bsky.social•69 days ago

Few coffins have been that well nailed down, it must be said.

finite187.bsky.social•69 days ago

That coffin is definitely not opening back up.

sjsedmonds.bsky.social•69 days ago

Surely a knighthood is needed for him !

canary2211.bsky.social•69 days ago

Great contrast UK v USA. Can’t see anyone in US being held to account for market manipulation - but pretty much the same thing.

paulbrand.bsky.social•69 days ago

Conservative Party spokesman:

“Current members of staff who have been charged are being suspended with immediate effect. These incidents took place in May last year. Our Party is now under new leadership and we are cooperating fully with the Gambling Commission.”

tjrh.uk•69 days ago

I expect there to be a flurry of fictional anti-Labour attack pieces in the right-wing media any minute so this blatant Tory corruption is pushed off any front page.

steamedrice.bsky.social•69 days ago

They'll all get away with it. UK is a joke right now. No police. No backbone in Government. The rights of law breakers supercedes the innocent for fear of human rights. Meanwhile people starve, freeze AND work. Better off in prison than getting a job

steamedrice.bsky.social•69 days ago

And watching @channel4news.bsky.social dispatches just show how much of a joke the system is. Their rights supercede everyone else's.

lewiseldred.bsky.social•69 days ago

I assume that the current Member of the Senedd for Montgomeryshire, Russell George, has also been suspended and lost the Tory whip?

anniemack.bsky.social•69 days ago

"Nothing to do with us, nothing to see here"......aye, right! They remain the nasty, greedy, entitled, dishonest party and I wouldn't trust as far as I could spit them.

winter02.bsky.social•69 days ago

So Badenoch is blaming Sunak for this corruption?

robin.bobin.uk•69 days ago

Oh it was all in the past! 🙃

gsds3.bsky.social•69 days ago

The unfortunate coincidence of the name of the one Police Officer charged.

disxt.bsky.social•69 days ago

So many snouts in so many troughs!

trudyunowho.bsky.social•69 days ago

Are they all now banned from holding parliamentary office or is it just a badge of honour for them?

justlookingk.bsky.social•69 days ago

Good question 🤔

chriswesthead.bsky.social•69 days ago

9 months on and we're still haunted by a group of political miscreants rotten to the core.

robin.bobin.uk•69 days ago

Trauma takes a lot longer than that to recover from!

jeffs63.bsky.social•69 days ago

Same old Tories always looking to make a quick buck

ashman06.bsky.social•48 days ago

I am praying that one day, we will also get an enquiry on Tory and Reform (or whatever Farage calls it) Party corruption regarding Brexit....
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social hope you are keeping all the evidence in a safe place

pibasedlifeform.bsky.social•69 days ago

What amazes me about this is that they kept being this dodgy, despite knowing full well that it was absolutely eviscerating them at the ballot box

And they of course made it worse by trying to make it sound like all politicians do it

The damage that that did to trust in politicians is huge

pj-galley.bsky.social•69 days ago

Prison sentences would sugar the pill.

carlslexicon.bsky.social•69 days ago

With this, and the VIP lanes during Covid (the mate in the pub, Mone etc) ... tell the UK public how these people were not the most opportunistic, self-serving, greedy bunch of people ever to walk the corridors of power even to the very end of their time in office, without telling them that.🤔